Daily Archives: 17 June 2026

Entertainers Entertaining

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Hollywood’s “entertainers” and NLMSM “journalists” put on a 3-hour show to compete with and draw viewers from the cage fight circus that President Donald Trump (R) put on to kick off our nation’s three-week celebration of our 250th birthday.

The event, called “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment,” was hosted by far-left activist and actress Jane Fonda…and the Committee for the First Amendment in New York City.

Bette Midler, reediting an Arlo Guthrie classic:

All you fascists bound to lose
Lose, you fascists bound to lose
We’ll battle ICE together, until they cut and run,
just like in Minneapolis, and when the midterms come
you’re bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose.

Joy Reid:

The threat is not coming, friends. It is here. Brendan Carr, the man who wrote the blueprint to dismantle the FCC and Project 2025, is now running it. He is weaponizing the agency to bully and control the press and suppress the wider televised media.

Robert De Niro:

I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.

The competing show was neither competitive nor entertaining. Pro tip from the peanut gallery of viewers: if you want to compete with an entertainment event, bitter hysteria is not the way.

Keys to Watch

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Damian Paletta, of The Wall Street Journal, has identified some keys to watch to see if the deal with Iran is a real one.

The Strait of Hormuz. Trump suggested that the Strait of Hormuz…would be opened after the deal is formally signed on Friday.

We’ll see. Iran has a long and hoary history of welching on its deals.

The blockade. The White House has imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ships, with the goal—essentially—of economic strangulation. … If the blockade is removed, Iran might be much more likely to continue negotiating with the White House on other things, as it could ease pressure on their economy.

Paletta’s interpretation is wrong. With pressure taken off, the men and women of Iran’s government and of its shadow government, the IRGC, will be much less willing to do any serious negotiation. They will, instead, be much more likely to continue tapping us along.

Israel. One of the biggest strains on the talks in the past months has been Israel, which has continued bombing inside Lebanon. Iran has said this was a deal breaker. Trump initially brushed aside concern about Israel’s strikes against Iran, but in recent weeks he has become furious that Israel wouldn’t stand down.

This is President Donald Trump’s (R) mistake. The fight between Iran and Israel, with the former using its satrap Hezbollah for its continuing fight, is an entirely separate war from the conflict between the US and Iran. Trump needs to openly recognize this and refuse any connection between the Israel-Iran war in Lebanon and our own conflict with Iran.